Religion - AAIHS

Rethinking Religion and Race in the Great Migration

September 27, 2017October 1, 2017 Emily Clark #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial

Uncovering New Sources for Research on Black Religion

September 26, 2017October 1, 2017 Danielle Brune Sigler #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld opens her book New World A-Coming with

Sometime Between: Living Archives and the Power of Black Agency

September 25, 2017September 29, 2017 Rhon Manigault-Bryant #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, religion

This post is the introduction to our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming In the opening pages of New World A-Coming: Black

Zora Neale Hurston, Diaspora, and the Memory of Hurricanes

September 14, 2017September 16, 2017 Janell Hobson Black women, Caribbean, Gender, religion

September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of

Essex Hemphill. Photo: Poetry Foundation.

The Poetic Theology of Essex Hemphill

September 1, 2017November 4, 2018 J. T. Roane Literary studies, poetry, spirituality

Facing the innumerable deaths of friends and loved ones, as well as the likelihood of his own untimely passing, Washington,